Raise your hand if you'd like a warmer, milder winter. Last winter, the area experienced a mild and somewhat out of the ordinary winter. The same could be on tap for this coming winter.
Here we are in North Dakota and this early cold snap has the area feeling more like January! Never the less, rejoice because today is National Chicken Soup Day!
So sad that I have to mention this but for Bismarck-Mandan, there is already an early prediction for the winter of 2014-15. And it's not looking like we'll get off with a mild winter if you believe these types of predictions.